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===Earlier resistance and riots===
{{Main|List of LGBTQ actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots}}
{{See also|Cooper Do-nuts Riot|Compton's Cafeteria riot}}
On the outer fringes of a few small gay communities were people who challenged traditional gender norms—effeminate men, masculine women, or people who dressed and lived in ways that contrasted with their [[sex assigned at birth]], either part-time or full-time. At the time, nomenclature classified them as [[transvestite]]s. Thus, as the most visible representatives for sexual minorities, they belied the carefully crafted image promoted by the Mattachine Society and DOB, which sought to portray homosexuals capable of fitting within a normative society.<ref name="stryker">[[Stryker, Susan]] (Winter, 2008). "Transgender History, Homonormativity and Disciplinarity". ''Radical History Review'', pp. 145–157.</ref> The Mattachine and DOB believed that being arrested for wearing clothing normative of the opposite gender was akin to the struggles of homophile organizations—similar but distinctly separate.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people [[Cooper Do-nuts Riot|rioted at the Cooper Do-nuts]] café in Los Angeles in 1959 to counteract police harassment.{{sfn|Faderman|Timmons|2006|pp=1–2}} In a larger 1966 event in San Francisco, drag queens, hustlers, and trans women<ref>Devor, Aaron and Ardel Haefele-Thomas (2019). ''Transgender: A Reference Handbook'', p. 30</ref> were sitting in [[Compton's Cafeteria]] when the police arrived to arrest people appearing to be physically male but were presenting as women. A riot ensued: cafeteria patrons were slinging cups, plates, and saucers, breaking the [[plexiglass]] windows in the front of the restaurant. They returned several days later to break the windows again shortly after they were replaced.<ref name="boyd">Boyd, Nan Alamilla (2004). "San Francisco" in the ''Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America'', Ed. Marc Stein. Vol. 3. Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 71–78.</ref> Professor [[Susan Stryker]] classifies the Compton's Cafeteria riot as an "act of anti-transgender discrimination, rather than an act of discrimination against sexual orientation" and connects the uprising to the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in relation to sexual orientation, which were being downplayed by contemporary homophile organizations.<ref name="stryker"/> It marked the beginning of [[transgender]] activism in San Francisco.<ref name="boyd"/>